Be Active Eat Well in Colac

A 3-year study in primary school children of multiple strategies to build the community's capacity to promote healthy eating and physical activity compared to no specific interventions on body size and waist circumference

Status

Completed

Phases

Phase 4

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12607000373471

Enrollment

2000

Registered

2007-07-16

Start date

2003-03-17

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Colac's Be Active Eat Well is a community-based intervention program aimed at increasing the community's capacity to promote healthy eating and physical activity and to reduce unhealthy weight gain in primary school aged children.

Interventions

Intervention group: Multiple strategies over 3 years in the schools and community to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Examples of strategies include school food policies, active after school programs, reducing TV viewing programs, school fruit activities, programs with local fast food outlets to improve the quality of food, parent education programs, social marketing, training of professionals and promoting active transport.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

3 Years to 12 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

All children in kindergarten and primary schools (enrollment >20) in the intervention community and the randomly selected areas for the comparison group.

Exclusion criteria

Unable to measure height or weight

Outcome results